I am just reminding you men and boys as your ladies, young and old, expect a valentine! Make sure you pick just the right valentine as my husband Kenny was in real trouble one Valentine’s Day when he was working at Yeomen Engineering in Huntington. He forgot to get my valentine and he didn’t have time to pick one up so he sent his secretary to get one. That was a mistake as all you women know that you don’t let another woman pick out your wife’s special card.
When he gave it to me I asked him a few questions like. “This doesn’t look like the cards you give me!”If you knew Kenny you would see that he couldn’t hold a straight face. He had been caught so he admitted and apologized. He never left anyone buy his cards for him after that.
He also used to buy me a red rose for very child but when the twins were born he bought me two dozen and then he, we, decided that seven roses were a little expensive. Sometimes though he would give me fakes after that as they were cheaper! Guys, get your cards and order your candy and flowers as the time is short!
Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, is a special day in our family as 81 years ago my brother David McBride was born. Maurice was 10, I was 7, Mary Lou was 4 and we had no idea we were getting a baby brother but there he was a little red head laying in a blue basket on the couch in the living room at the farm.
In 1997 on Valentine’s Day our mother Mary McBride passed away. She had lived with us for one year.
This year our red-headed grandson Abram Edwards will be one-years-old on Valentine’s Day! He is one of Jeremiah and Brandy’s clan.
By my typewriter I have a Zanesville History Book that I, Rosemary Smuts Kumfer and typist Velma Harden compiled in 1976. If you would like to buy one I have a few available for the price of copying of $20 each. You can also read one at your local library and then decide if you want one for home.
I made it to our great-grandson’s Crete and Nico Edwards’s Upward Basketball games at the Tower Life Center Gym on Wayne Street. Upward basketball and Cheerleading is held every Saturday most of the day and they also serve sandwiches and other food. You are all welcome to come and enjoy watching the kids play. Thanks to all of you who keep this great community activity going.
The Zanesville Church of God’s Coffee Cafe is open every weekday mornings from 7:30 to 10 a.m. All are welcome to attend.
